Some of the most soulful work we've ever heard from South African tenorist Basil Mannenberg Coetzee – served up here on an album that's split with fellow saxophonist Barney Rachabane!

Side A features Coetzee stretching out on a really long track – a side-long reading of the classic "Shrimp Boats", but taken into very different territory as a longform solo vehicle – with work from a group that also features Stompie Manana on tenor and Lionel Pillay on both keyboards and piano – players who also get plenty of room for solo space, next to the bass of Charles Johnstone and drums of Rod Clark.

Side B has a different flavor – still with keyboards and piano from Pillay, but next to alto work from Barney Rachabane, a player who's almost got some Hank Crawford elements in his sound – working alongside Duku Makasi on tenor, Sipho Gumede on bass, and Gilbert Mathews on drums.

PERSONNEL:

• Barney Rachabane - (alto sax)
• Charles Johnstone, Sipho Gumede - (bass)
• Gilbert Mathews - (drums)
• Rod Clark - (drums, percussion)
• Lionel Pillay - (keyboards, piano)
• Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee, Duku Makasi - (tenor, sax)
• Stompie Manana - (trumpet)

Recorded on September 29, 1980 & November 12, 1979

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Shrimp Boats ........ 25:09

• SIDE B
• B1. Slow Blues For Orial ..... 7:20
• B2. Yakahal 'Inkomo ....... 9:07
• B3. Birdland ...... 5:43